Knowledge and Skills for Leadership in the Modern Tech Industry

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A recent discussion has come up in my organization. Three years ago we embarked on a “grand experiment”. We re-org’d into 2-pizza service/agile teams, committed to Scrum and DevOps and Agile, trained and hired, and sally forth! For some teams, this was a natural fit and it worked great. There were a couple of in-house […]

When do you know its time to move on? There was a ten-year period in my career where I changed jobs 4 or 5 times. I started to notice a pattern: Year 1: Figure out what is actually going on in the company, and how to do your job Year 2: Try to institute a […]

If you want your company to be agile, then your organizational chart is critically important to your ability to execute. (This is assuming you believe in Boyd’s Law: “Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration”.) But why does the Org Chart matter? What does that have to do with an organization’s agility? Let’s start with […]